Strong wind generation leads a 66% renewable mix at midnight, with coal and gas providing firm thermal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 11%
66%
Renewable share
27.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
50.3 GW
Total generation
+3.5 GW
Net export
81.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.6°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
230
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 21.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a dark, flat northern German plain, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears in the far background-right as a line of larger turbines on the horizon above a barely visible dark sea; brown coal 5.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; hard coal 5.4 GW sits just right of the brown coal plant as a smaller coal station with a single tall smokestack and visible coal conveyors under floodlights; natural gas 6.1 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single clean exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered centre-right as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a rounded storage dome and a low chimney with pale exhaust; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible in a stream in the lower foreground, water gleaming under artificial light. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black to deep navy, heavy 100% overcast with no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — only sodium-yellow and white-blue industrial lighting illuminates the facilities. Temperature is a cool 6.6°C early spring night: bare trees with just the first buds, patches of damp ground, slight mist around the cooling towers. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — dense low clouds pressing down, the steam merging into the thick overcast ceiling. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep blues, blacks, warm ambers, and cold whites — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The composition evokes the industrial sublime. No text, no labels.